The impact of assessment on students learning

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Abstract

In this paper, a methodology for characterizing assessment environments at an engineering program level that is able to distinguish between weak, average, and talented students has been presented. Also an Assessment Experience Questionnaire (AEQ) that is competent of measuring students' learning response has been presented. These two methods are used in this paper to study various undergraduate degree programs in Engineering. Finally, the correlation between characteristics of assessment environments and student learning responses and also features of assessment environments that appear to be associated with positive learning responses also provided.

Original languageBritish English
Pages (from-to)718-721
Number of pages4
JournalProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Volume28
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
EventWorld Conference on Educational Technology Researches, WCETR-2011 - Nicosia/Kyrenia, Cyprus
Duration: 5 Jul 20119 Jul 2011

Keywords

  • Assessment
  • Deep and surface approaches
  • Learning and teaching

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